From Data IO 2013 (were you there?) we had a great tear-down of Vert.x by Lance Ball, who is the lead on the Javascript module of the platform. See this “great GitHub repo”:https://github.com/lance/dataIO2013 where he includes both his presentation using HTML slides, but the sample code for some Vert.x modules.

Shout-outs

Thanks to @tfnico, @lincolnthree, and @mxsb55 for the positive feedback to @techcast on Twitter!

Reasons not to just use the AWS console include - you can hide the keys, customize the deployment model, automate workflow, log changes, and more.

Also check out youtube.com/theasgardshow - a regular Q&A show they archive on YouTube.

The Oboe.js Async Ajax Processing Project -Oboe.js's makes web applications faster by wrapping https's request-response model with a progressively streamed interface. It glues a transport that sits somewhere between streaming and downloading onto to a JSON parser that sits somewhere between SAX and DOM. It is small enough to be a micro-library, doesn't have any external dependencies and doesn't care which other libraries you need it to speak to.

Python 3.4 is out - Most of the new packages added directly reflect what’s going on in the software dev world right now including Async I/O, but also including data science research APIs in math, statistics, etc...

Eclipse Virgo - Glyn Normington stepping down - but guess who may be taking over the project lead at Project Gemini? Dmitry Sklyut. We quote: “The plan is for Dmitry Sklyut to take over the project leadership of Gemini Blueprint. He has been voted as a committer so far. Then each of Virgo's Gemini dependencies will have a (non-dormant) project lead. Original source article on InfoQ.

Sauce Labs creates BrowserSwarm - tests across a range of browsers in the cloud, right from your GitHub account.

In the comments section: "All of a sudden, Richard Stallman's continuing tirade about purity of open source, and the need for proper documentation on everything (hardware included) doesn't seem so crackpot now. Hindsight, but yes, we should have listened." Interesting, yes?